Boy Selling Homemade Hand Sanitizer Sort Of Like A Lemonade Stand.
By Carolyn McArdle
March 9, 2020
A 10-year-old boy has set a hand sanitizer stand in his neighborhood in Austin to help with the shortage of sanitizers in stores due to the coronavirus. Picture a lemonade stand but with homemade hand sanitizer instead.
He is selling it for $3 a bottle. He calls it CoroNO Gel.
He makes the sanitizer using aloe vera, essential oils and alcohol – he insists it meets the 60% alcohol standard recommended by the CDC.
The business has been booming since Miles started selling CoroNO Gel. His goal was to make $100, and he says he is almost there.
Jack Kulp and Carolyn McArdle talked about it on the air. Listen below